@JoeS exactly. For me personally, base X1Y3 is a big no compared to X380Y and L380Y, I simply won't buy it - because 8GB RAM is a joke to me. With the cheaper machines, I can just upgrade to 16GB or 32GB respectively, whenever I want. And the SSDs... I don't even want 512GB or 1TB NVME drive - I'd rather have 2TB SATA instead. OK, maybe there'll be a configuration with HDR+, 16GB RAM yet i5 CPU and cheap 256GB SATA drive - but that's not how things usually go. X1Y2 configurations with OLED display & 16GB RAM all came with i7 CPUs & NVME drives, for example.

I personally am disappointed. It's not that it isn't an upgrade over 370 - it definitely is, even though the RAM is soldered now - it should be dual channel and thus provide noticeable GPU performance improvement. But no wonderful features of 260 were reintroduced - namely, matte screen option, and volume rocker on the side.

I'm personally not facsinated with Intel as the only modem option either - Intel track record is very poor in this regard, they simply abandoned users of their older modems and didn't provide upgrades to buggy firmware. Not keeping the wonderful and stable Qualcomm-based EM7455, at least as an option, is really beyond me.

Doesn't necessarily mean that I won't buy one - but I'll definitely take my sweet time to consider other alternatives.